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Ben, the creator of AI Render, explains how to install the Blender add-on and use Stable Diffusion to transform a rendered scene with a text prompt. Uploaded on October 12, 2022, this tutorial shows a DreamStudio API workflow. The supplied material identifies no Blender, add-on or model version. A later, undated description update says AI Render supports local installation and animations, but the tutorial does not demonstrate those features or an offline setup.
The demonstrated setup installs a ZIP through Blender's add-on preferences, enables AI Render and adds a DreamStudio API key. Ben then enables it for the scene under Render Properties and chooses 512 by 512 pixels. He warns that larger dimensions can risk timeouts in this workflow. Style presets append text to the prompt, while the Blender render supplies the starting image. His examples use Eevee; he also says Cycles renders can serve as input.
The advanced controls show how image similarity changes fidelity to the scene, with Ben suggesting 0.15 to 0.5 as a starting range. Reusing a seed helps compare variations, though he cautions that scene changes need not preserve the same result. He tests step counts and prompt strength, warns that excessive strength can spoil an image, and recommends leaving the sampler at its default. Manual operation can generate further images from the last render without rendering the scene again, or use the last AI image as the next input.
